Re: [Bacnet-developers] BACnet Stack and C#

[Václav L. <vac...@gm...>]

I have done something similar back in 2007 when we had to deliver Windows
service that serves as gateway to some other devices. After tuning some
issues (callbacks between managed/unmanaged code, marshalling, etc) it has
become very stable and useful application. But I would not recommend doing
any serious development of C# application on top of recent bacnet stack
because:

- bacnet stack architecture is way too different from what you would
expect/need
- marshalling and creating C++ wrapper will take you as much time as
creating managed serializers/deserializers
- you won't probably use most of bacnet stack source code since only usable
stuff is actually encoding/decoding procedures

Vasek


2013/10/26 Julien B. <ant...@us...>

>
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started using the
> > stack with C#?  Any help is greatly appreciated.
> It greatly depend on what degree of control over the bacnet-stack you
> expect to have in c#, it you just need to invoke some property-reading
> and writing, you might easily interface your C# classes with a custom
> C++/CLI classes library of yours, linked with the unmodified core
> bacnet-stack.
>
> That's what I did for our customers a few years ago now they are still
> pretty happy.
>
> The only tricky part is to turn the native "array" / "lists" of objects
> into the pretty managed C# objects.. and vice-versa..
>
> > Have a look at the BACnet Browser at SourceForge
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacnetbrowser
> .. we had a look at this project in 2010 but sadly it was not very
> stable (and just not working with the controllers we had to ). Maybe it
> is now better -- or maybe the code inside is interesting.
>
>
>
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